Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: The Global March to Jerusalem, a brave and admirable attempt to awaken the world’s conscience [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)(also, I never said that JUST ending the occupation would bring peace. I said there also had to be a real recognition process that would include not just compensation to those who weren't allowed to return to their homes but apologies for their expulsion and an admission that Arabs had just as deeo a connection to the area as those people who identify as Israelis, plus a truth and reconciliation position. Don't distort or simplify my views.)
Sharon made it sound like Gaza was all Palestinians were going to get, and did not treat Palestinians of any stripe with any respect as he handled the so-called "withdrawal". It can't be compared to the West Bank situation at all.
I want an end to the oppression of Palestinians in the West Bank. How can that possibly happen WITHOUT the Occupation ending and without the settlements being removed? We both know the land area taken up by the settlements is too large to make it possible to make a real state on the pitiful remnants that weren't taken by the settlers.
You have never made a case for any possible way that the Occupation can ever lead to anything better for the people of the West Bank. You have never made it because you know that no such case exists and that no Palestinians at all really want the Occupation to go on(the handful who say they do are comparable to the tiny handful of black collaborators with the old apartheid regime in South Africa-in any country, you'll always find sellouts and opportunists).